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Fuck this obsession with performance! Does the language help you develop better programs? Is the language safer/smaller/some-other-important-metric?
by omouse 19y ago
Fuck this obsession with performance! Does the language help you develop better programs? Is the language safer/smaller/some-other-important-metric?
- jrockway 19y agoLisp is really the best of both worlds. It's a nice looking language (easy to read and write; and good tools available), and I would use it even if it were slow. But unlike the other slow langauges (Perl), it can be made to run fast. Now if only there were some libraries.
- jsyedidia 19y agoYou might want to look at Nu (http://programming.nu http://programming.nu). It's a new Lisp built on Objective-C, designed to make it extremely easy to call C or Objective-C libraries and frameworks (particularly Cocoa). It's a wonderful merger of Lisp, Objective-C, and Ruby.
- jcl 19y agoIf you are working in a language that has significant development advantages but mediocre performance, I think it is reasonable to look for ways to improve its performance.